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Article: Achieving unity through diversity: Fulbright conference addresses issues of discord, harmony in an increasingly multicultural United States.(Noteworthy News)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- April 22, 2004
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WASHINGTON
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Dr. Otelemate Harry has spent time on several college campuses in the United States, but this year he is getting to know the East Coast. The linguistics scholar is in the middle of an 11-month stint as a lecturer at Suffolk County Community College as a Fulbright "Scholar-in-Residence."
"This is my first time coming to the Northeast and experiencing the other side of America," Harry, one of about 100 scholars from more than 60 countries, said at last month's national conference of Fulbright Visiting Scholars in Washington, D.C.
This year the scholars spent three days grappling with issues of harmony and ...